Eagerly awaited, this: Peter Morgan writing again for Helen Mirren as the
Queen, as he did in his 2006 film of that name. In this play he imagines Her
Majesty’s weekly audiences with her 12 prime ministers over 60 years.

You might expect satire, caricature and easy political ironies, or perhaps
sentimental royalism. But this is something rarer: funny and truthful,
good-hearted, spiky, full of surprises. I loved every minute, starting with
the first one when a lachrymose John Major (Paul Ritter) uses his Queen-time
to bewail his fight with backbenchers. HM proffers a hanky.